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Book

Only the animals

Call Number

  • FICTION DOVE (EAS)

Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Physical Description

248 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century, and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways, tell their astonishing stories of life and death"--

Contents

  • The bones
  • Pigeons, a pony, the tomcat and I
  • Red Peter's little lady
  • Hundstage
  • Somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me
  • Plautus: a memoir of my years on Earth and last days in space
  • I, the elephant, wrote this
  • Telling fairy tales
  • A letter to Sylvia Plath
  • Psittacophile.

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